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Forget Bring-Your-Own-Device. CIOs and CISOs are worried about the security implications of Bring-Your-Own-Anything, BYOx, and how the trend affects corporate data, according to a new Wisegate report.

Survey Shows Companies Maximize Revenue and Profit Growth by Allowing Employees to Use the Best Technologies Available When companies give employees the choice of any technology to get their job done, the company sees a significant boost in efficiency and productivity, according to a new survey from Blue Coat Systems.

Skyhigh Networks, a Cupertino, California-based startup that discovers, analyzes, and controls cloud services in use within an organization, announced that it has received $20 million in a Series B financing round led by Sequoia Capital, bringing the total investment in the company to-date to more than $26M.

Tripwire, a provider of security risk and compliance management tools, this week launched its NERC Solution Suite, a combination of customized tools and services designed to help utilities automate, achieve and maintain North American Electrical Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) compliance.

WASHINGTON - The United States should consider curbs on Chinese investment or even offensive operations against hackers to address the growing toll from intellectual property theft, a report said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON - A high-powered commission said Wednesday that intellectual property theft was costing the United States the equivalent of all its exports to Asia and urged a tougher approach to China.

According to the Associated Press, officials at Guantanamo Bay prison halted access to Wi-Fi, as well as social media this week, due to security concerns that arose after Anonymous pledged to stand in solidarity with prisoners who are currently on a hunger strike.

On Tuesday, during the House’s Energy and Commerce Committee's cybersecurity hearing, Representatives Henry Waxman and Ed Markey released a report detailing the risks faced by the nation’s power grid. According to responses sent to the lawmakers, the situation is as bad as expected, and could get worse unless changes are made.

Accuvant Labs has published details concerning a Java vulnerability exploited during the Pwn2Own contest earlier this year. The flaw was patched in April by Oracle, but for the curious, the security firm is providing additional details, including the exact code used by Joshua J. Drake.

SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter said Wednesday it was stepping up security measures for the popular messaging service following a series of high-profile breaches by hackers hitting media organizations and others. Twitter said it would implement a new login verification system, "a form of two-factor authentication" which is "a second check to make sure it's really you" when a user signs in.

JOHANNESBURG - Hackers cracked into the website of South Africa's police and downloaded information that could leave whistleblowers vulnerable, police and a government data agency said Wednesday.

Attackers are stepping up their development of a piece of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) malware tied to attacks across the world.

Blue Coat Systems is no longer the Web filtering company you knew it as. The company, founded in 1996 as CacheFlow, has come full circle from going public in 1999, to being taken private by an investor group led by private equity firm Thoma Bravo in a deal valued at roughly $1.3 billion.

Canadian security company Fixmo unveiled its next-generation mobile security and enterprise mobility management platform to protect sensitive data on enterprise networks.

Fortinet has introduced a new operating system for its FortiWeb Web application firewalls.